Entries from May 2002
Spider-Man
Went and saw Spider-Man this afternoon. It was fun. Good eye-candy, and a better story than mindless summer action movies are expected to have.
You know how all the big theater chains have these computer-generated animations to let you know the trailers are over, that you should go out ot the lobby and buy junk food, [...]
globe of blogs | weblog
globe of blogs | weblog directoryI like the idea of creating a map between cyberspace and real-space. I ran into NYC Bloggers, which maps, well, bloggers in New York by their subway stop. That led me to the above site, which takes a more macro scale.
It would be nifty if we could overlay a map [...]
McDonalds on Pluto
Nick Denton
…I’ve always loved the US. The history, the Federalist Papers, science fiction, Hollywood, quirky independent movies, Central Park, bagels, the familiarity of the Upper West Side, the West Wing, the New York Times on a Sunday, New York, all the more after September 11th, drinking places without carpets, strange food and strange sex, landing [...]
Consensus at Lawyerpoint
Consensus at Lawyerpoint
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) filed the “Content Protection Status Report” with the Senate Judiciary Committee last month, laying out its plan to remake the technology world to suit its own ends. The report calls for regulation of analog-to-digital converters (ADCs), generic computing components found in scientific, medical and entertainment devices. [...]
More test-drive fun
More test-drive fun yesterday. I drove a couple of Subaru Imprezas–the plain-vanilla RS, and the completely insane WRX.
The RS is a good car–it drives well, and Consumer Reports rates it highly for durability. It’s got a pretty potent engine for a car of its size, good handling, and that all-wheel drive really does make a [...]
Junk mail
This is truly hilarious.
Once upon a time, I was a member of the Japan Association of Translators. In fact, I served for a few years as a director, during which time I helped the group purchase its domain name and set up its website. So my name and address got stuck in Network Solution’s database. [...]
Roundtrip Translation
Roundtrip Translation Script from staggernation. Lots of fun: you give it a web-page URL–it runs the page through a machine translator and back. Hilarity ensues. The round-trip to Korean is especially surreal.
Another sucky website
File this one under “web pages that suck.”
I accidentally surfed to the website of a company called IMJ and was blown away at the ingeniously awful navigation bar. It’s flash-based and the items move around under your mouse when you try to click something.
Test-drive day
Saturday was a very car-oriented day, which is funny for someone who tries to keep his car use to a minimum. But my own ratbox of a car, an ‘86 Honda Civic with 176,000 miles and a weird smell, is facing repairs that are probably worth more than the car. It’s at this point that [...]
Hell House
Saw Hell House last night. This is a documentary about a sort-of haunted house run by the Trinity Church of Cedar Hill, right here in Texas. The church runs this every year, and it’s a huge production all aimed at scaring people into being good Christians.
The movie was fascinating, disturbing, and funny. The documentarian avoided [...]
